Creative Roots

06/13/2020

Enjoy this post which was shared with me by a friend of mine whom I have known since we were in elementary school.

We miss all of you at Creative Roots and have been enjoying some great memories of the children and families we have worked with over the past 10 years while packing up to move to our new location. Although COVID-19 has kept us from seeing everyone, you are in our minds and hearts and we hope to be with you in person again soon!

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04/04/2020

Research on what’s happening in the brain when jazz musicians improvise is helping shed light on the neuroscience behind creativity.

03/20/2020

03/13/2020

We will be offering Mixed Media camps during Spring Break http://creativerootspdx.com/5952-2/

09/03/2019

The kind of free play grown-ups had in previous generations is looked at with nostalgia in today’s era of adult-supervised activities. Children are missing out on the benefits of unstructured play, but a group of dedicated educators are trying to give kids back their play time through the Global S...

07/27/2019

Enjoy a few photos from our summer camps! Next week is Multicultural Arts.

07/13/2019

Creativity, Integration and Collaboration... great video by Scott Barry Kaufman

Cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman unravels some of creativity’s mysterious origins with the help of brain scanning equipment. “Depending on…

06/24/2019

Educators are attempting classroom redesign to make school spaces more conducive to the different ways students learn and the way teachers want to teach.

06/15/2019

“In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and…

06/09/2019

Parents often feel intimidated in face-to-face encounters with educators because they don't know what to ask. Working with parents to surface their questions could be a powerful way to engage them with their child's education.